The first of a handful of games S&S rolled out over a couple of years, The Kobayashi Alternative boasts a script by Trek novel veteran Diane Duane. Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative - Simon and Schuster, 1985. I had the Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 versions as a kid, and I even have one of the stand-up arcade cabinets in my home office: The 80s vector graphics retain their kitschy cool, and the game remains one I play every so often to this day. A simple shoot-em-up, the game is augmented by the voices of Leonard Nimoy as Spock and James Doohan as Scotty. Perhaps one of my all-time favorites, I played THE HELL out of this game at the local arcades of my youth. Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator - Sega, 1982. (For what it's worth, I still have most of these in a box somewhere.) Some of the others I played to one degree or another: From there, a strange, fun journey ensued. My memories of Star Trek games on computer go back to a teletype version of the classic text-based game from the 1970s. As I get ready to plunge headlong into this latest entry in the eclectic catalog of Star Trek computer/video games, I also find myself remembering some of the other games from that list that I played over the years. So, I suppose it's safe to say I'm kind of jazzed to see how this all plays out. Hell, I even pre-ordered a copy of the game. The game is receiving largely favorable early reviews, and anticipation within Star Trek fandom as well as the general gaming community is high. I've followed its development these past couple of years, taking a particular interest in the "universe" that's been created - that being an era some 30 years beyond the events of the 24th century-era characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.
That doesn't stop me from buying the odd game or expansion set, nor does it prevent me from trying to stay up to date with games I find interesting, even if I'm not an active player. I love to play them I simply don't have the time to devote to them like true avid gamers do. I've only ever been what at best could be described as a "casual" gamer, be it role-playing games or other computer games, arcade games, table-top board games, and so on. Trekkie gamers, if they haven't already taken advantage of the soft-launch gameplay Cryptic's made available during the past few days, are frothing at the mouth as they wait to pick up their copies of the game and get to some serious going of the boldly sort.
DaytonwardToday marks the "official" launch of Star Trek Online, the massive multi-player online role-playing game from Cryptic Studios.
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